It's a good night if her 3-year-old son, Garath, sleeps past 4 a.m., Casandra Oldham says. It's not his fault, she adds -- his medicine makes him wake up early.
Even when he does sleep later, the Oldham family is up by 6 a.m. A health professional arrives at the house near Lansdowne soon afterward to work with Garath and his younger brother, Korlan, nearly 2, on their daily behavioral therapy. And the boys' mother must get an early start on preparing their medication -- a series of medical cocktails, multivitamins and anti-parasite treatments. Over the course of the morning, they will take at least 11 types of drugs.
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